This is the same kind confusion that happens with sampling positions in modern APIs, where the location is specified in coordinates and not in pixel centers.

There are no wealth extraction capabilities yet. It's a money pit. They're certainly hoping it'll surpass some breakpoint and become profitable by brute-forcing compute power, but that's very optimistic. The propaganda Schmidt is pushing envisions that future in hopes of raising current stock prices so they can afford the brute-forcing that's very unlikely to succeed.

My prediction is that we'll keep the tools we've acquired, probably refined a bit, but the LLM path is eventually a dead-end. After this, if they still try to monetize, remote models will be extremely expensive.

~7x overcompute * ~7x real cost to Anthropic * your 10-20k estimate for consumer use is my thought for actual total cost. If the honeymoon period runs out and they're still in business, this is what everyone will pay.

I don't see anything worthwhile in this Super ZSNES project yet. We were all ZSNES users back in the days.

ZSNES is popular because of legacy and nostalgia. It was very fast and came at just the right time, but the developers aren't quite coding gods. Their expertise on the SNES is no match for late/later developers like Near and Sour.

With Super ZSNES, being a Unity project, you can get a fairly clear decompile of the IR, and the code doesn't seem all that impressive. It's alpha-quality, but generally coded like the original ZSNES was. Optimization is completely missing and accuracy is still out of whack, but synchronization is improved and it's doing a little better job of counting cycles. "GPU-powered" is a big stretch. ~~They're only taking advantage of it for fixed-function perspective transform on mode 7~~ Scratch that. It borrows the line-based algorithm from bsnes-hd, including the trick to interpolate the transform variables between mins and maxes. So the only GPU feature it uses is blending for bump-mapping.